Own Your Zone Podcast

Charles Hudson is the Founder and Managing Partner of Precursor Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in the first institutional round of investments for promising software and hardware companies. He is also the Board Chair of the National Venture Capital Association, which funds America’s most innovative entrepreneurs. Before launching Precursor, Charles was a Partner at SoftTech VC, where he focused o...

Al Buda is the Founder and Managing Partner of Aware Partners, an algorithmic venture capital fund of funds. The firm strives to create positive returns for LPs, GPs, and startups. With over 20 years of experience as an engineer, investor, and entrepreneur, Al founded and exited two profitable SaaS companies. Before founding Aware Partners, Al was the President of the Oxford University Startup Accelerator, where she became an angel...

John Hagel is a Management Consultant, Trusted Advisor, and Inspirational Speaker at Beyond Our Edge, LLC, which motivates institutions and individuals to collaborate, overcome obstacles, and address emerging opportunities. As a Silicon Valley veteran, he was the Founder and Leader of Deloitte’s Center for the Edge, where he identified new business opportunities. John is the author of The Journey Beyond Fear, which addresses the ps...

Allison Baum Gates is a General Partner at SemperVirens Venture Capital, an early-stage VC fund investing in healthcare, fintech, and workforce technology. As an experienced investor in the future of work, venture capital, and technology, she is the author of Breaking Into Venture. Before SemperVirens, Allison was the Principal of Trinity Ventures and the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Fresco Capital.

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Daniel Doulton is the CEO of Solaris Suborbital, an aerospace R&D company designing and operating third-generation solar gliders. As a visionary technology executive and entrepreneur, he has experience creating award-winning products and brands at the intersection of AI, telecommunications, mobile, and aerospace. Daniel has also built world-class product teams, scaled startups to over $100 million, created corporate spin-outs, and ...

Dr. Connor Glass is the Founder of Phantom Neuro, a neurotechnology company enabling lifelike control of robotic orthopedic technologies, including prosthetic limbs and exoskeletons. As a physician and bionic interfacing researcher, he specializes in microsurgical interventions for nerve injury and connecting machines to the nervous system. Dr. Glass augments biology with technology for function restoration, human augmentation, and...

Silvina Moschini is the Executive Producer of Unicorn Hunters, an iconic business TV show offering wealth-growth potential to individual founders and investors, and she’s the Founder and President of Unicoin, a next-generation, asset-backed cryptocurrency. She is also the Founder of numerous other businesses, including SheWorks!, an innovative technology platform closing the gender gap; Transparent Business, a remote workforce mana...

Elizabeth Cook is a Managing Partner at AI Capital, an innovative venture capital source with thematic investment in enterprise artificial intelligence software companies. As a startup advisor and investor for AI, tech, and biotech companies, Elizabeth was the first hire for MIT’s largest capital project, MIT.nano. Before AI Capital, she held various roles in venture capital at Castor Ventures, the Alumni Venture Group Fund for MIT...

Alicia Hanf is the Founder and Managing Partner at Dear Mama Ventures, a venture capital fund raising over $1 billion to support people of color, women, and veteran founders. With over 10 years of combined experience in leadership, coaching, sales, SaaS, business development, and relationship building, she focuses on helping companies and communities grow and empowering business executives to be leaders. Alicia is also a TEDx speak...

Sarah (Sassie) Duggleby is the Co-founder and CEO of Venus Aerospace, a startup building the world’s first space plane that can fly at hypersonic speeds. With an engineering background, she has many years of experience growing multiple tech startups in various business arenas, including fiber optic testing, biotechnology, steel manufacturing, and rocket launches. Before launching Venus, Sassie was a Launch Systems Engineering and M...

JiNan Glasgow George is a Patent Attorney and Founder of Neo IP, a law firm helping clients maximize their return on investment for patent assets. As an investor, entrepreneur, and former USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) patent examiner, JiNan has a track record of helping companies increase their valuation through an IP strategy. 

JiNan is recognized worldwide for her expertise in intellectual property. She has sp...

Ryan K. Johns is the Founder and Principal of RK Johns Consulting, a global people and revenue operations consulting firm that leverages science, psychology, and micro-learning to optimize cultural performance. As an Air Force veteran and minority-owned business founder, he is also the Head of Corporate Strategy at Central Metric and the CEO of World Bridge Military Partners. With nearly two decades of leadership experience in both...

Joe Weinman is the Founder and Principal of XFORMA LLC, a frequent global keynote speaker, digital strategist, and an experienced telecom and IT executive who has spoken at 450 events on six continents. He is the author of Cloudonomics and Digital Disciplines and is a contributor to Regulating the Cloud. Joe’s business and technical articles have appeared in notable publications, including the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and T...

Cole Crawford is the Founder and CEO of Vapor IO, the world’s first intelligent, hyper-modular data center solution. He is also the Co-founder of the Open19 Foundation and a member of the Board of Directors at Nexar, Inc. With over 20 years of leadership experience in the telecom and data center industries, Cole is a Forbes contributor and has been named to Data Economy’s list of The World’s Most Influential Data Economy Leaders an...

Ted Mosler is the Founder and CEO of Gilero, a trusted design and manufacturing company for medical and drug delivery devices. He is also a board member and the Founder of Yukon Medical, a leading developer of innovative pharmaceutical preparation and delivery devices with a focus on reconstitution at the point of care and injectable drug delivery. 

As a medical device leader with over 25 years in the product development space, Ted...

Martin Renkis is the Vice President of Technology Architecture at Johnson Controls, the global leader in smart, healthy, and sustainable buildings. In his role, he leads collaborations with partners, customers, and vendors to bring security as a service platforms to the global market. Martin is the former Founder and CEO of Smartvue Corporation, an IoT video and surveillance SaaS platform acquired by Johnson Controls in 2018. As a ...

Paul Gyra is the Managing Partner and Senior Executive Officer at Meta Impact Capital, a company that supports and empowers innovative founders who are developing the infrastructure for the digital future. Meta Impact Capital is led by a team of seasoned investors and innovators in the tech and Web3 space. The diversity and global footprint of their partners and strategic advisors gives them a truly unique understanding of how Meta...

JiNan Glasgow George is a Patent Attorney and Founder of Neo IP, a law firm helping clients maximize their return on investment for patent assets. As an investor, entrepreneur, and former USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) patent examiner, JiNan has a track record of helping companies increase their valuation through an IP strategy. 

JiNan is recognized worldwide for her expertise in intellectual property. She has sp...

JiNan Glasgow George is an IP Attorney and Founder of Neo IP, a company that provides legal services to help clients maximize their return on investment for their patent assets. JiNan is also the Co-founder of Patent Forecast, an AI-driven software that shows patent data in real time. JiNan is recognized worldwide for her expertise in intellectual property and has spoken about intellectual property before the UN Economic Commission...